Banks, David
David is the current president of the Tropical Fish Club of Burlington and cofounded the club in 1989 with his wife Janine. David is past president of the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies and still holds several positions within that organization. He has been an active breeder of tropical fish for over 25 years, at…
Read MoreLewis, Bob
Bob Lewis has over 35 years of experience breeding and raising tropical fsh. He is currently Vice President of the International Fancy Guppy Association and has held other positions within the organization as well. Having joined the IFGA approximately 25 years ago and having obtained his judging credentials in the early 1990s, he is no…
Read MoreTurner, Bruce
Professor Bruce Turner earned a Ph.D. from UCLA, and he has spent his life as an ichthyologist studing the genetics, taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of fishes. He has been an associate professor of Biology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute since 1984, and has published numeroous books and papers on Poecilia livebearers and Goodeids, as well as…
Read MoreLarsen Sr., Bob
A mentor and legend in the NJ hobby, Bob is celebrating over 50 years as an aquarist. Although he has kept and bred many fish including Corydoras, Bettas, and Angelfish over the years, the guppy caught his interest and he centered his hobby around this diverse fish. Tutored by guppy greats Arnold Sweeney and Louis…
Read MoreDick, Leslie
Leslie Dick is the current Chairman of the American Livebearer Association (ALA) and is a charter member of the North American Goodied Working Group (NAGWG), as well as a member of the NAGWG steering committee. She is the CARES for Individual Coordinator with the CARES Preservation Program. Leslie sits on the BOD of the Northeast…
Read MoreDibble, Ivan (died 25 Dec. 2009)
Programs: Goodeids My Way (Northeast Livebearer Association (NELA) meeting – NEC 2006 Convention)
Read MoreAntkowiak, Joel
Joel Antkowiak was born on the Southside of Pittsburgh in 1962, Joel’s first brush with the organized hobby came in 1976 when he found an ad for the American Killifish Association in an old aquarium hobby magazine. Having always appreciated the beauty of these fishes from the color plates in the old “Innes book”, and not…
Read MoreWood, Allen
Past ALA Chairman Programs: Adapting My Fish Room for a Large Number of Livebearers
Read Morede Greef, Jaap-Jan
Jaap-Jan de Greef was born in 1957 on the island os Sumatra in Indonesia as a citizen of the Netherlands. Political unrest and his father’s occupation forced him and his family to move a number of times — from Indonesia to Mozambique to Tanganyika (Tanzania) to Suriname to the Netherlands to Ecuador and then to…
Read MoreRegina, Charles
Programs: Guppies
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